How do I verify a General Contractor license in Virginia?

Call TradesAPI's GET /verify with state=VA, the license number, and trade=general to get a normalized result — valid/invalid, status, expiration, and any disciplinary actions — in one request. You can also search the official Virginia board portal by hand.

What comes back for a Virginia general contractor license?

The normalized /verify result: whether the license is valid, its current status and expiration date, and any disciplinary actions the Virginia board publishes — the same schema as every other state and trade.

Is Virginia general contractor license data free to check?

The Virginia board's public portal is free to search manually. TradesAPI adds a single normalized API across all 50 states plus DC — every new API key includes 50 free verifications.

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How to verify general contractor licenses in Virginia

Check any Virginia general contractor license — status, expiration, and disciplinary history — through one normalized API, or look it up by hand on the state board portal.

Virginia coverage: Operational · live status

What you can verify

Trade: General Contractor

Data source: DPOR official records (5-day refresh)

Coverage: Class A/B/C contractors, 40+ specialty classifications, disciplinary actions

Virginia also supports name search — when you only have a contractor's name, the /search endpoint returns every matching license with full metadata, general contractor licenses included.

Looking for a different Virginia trade, or the same trade in another state? See the full Virginia license guide or the national General Contractor lookup by state.

One call. The whole picture.

The /verify response is identical in shape across every state and trade, so your integration code never changes per jurisdiction:

GET /verify?state=VA&license=SAMPLE-12345&trade=general

{
  "valid": true,
  "name": "SAMPLE CONTRACTING LLC",
  "license_number": "SAMPLE-12345",
  "trade": "general",
  "expiration": "05/12/2027",
  "status": "Active",
  "state": "VA",
  "disciplinary_actions": [],
  "source_url": "https://dporweb.dpor.virginia.gov/LicenseLookup/",
  "cached": false,
  "checked_at": "2026-07-06T16:00:00Z"
}

Example response showing the normalized schema. Wire it up against deterministic fixtures in the sandbox — no credit cost.

Verify Virginia general contractor licenses programmatically

# Verify a Virginia general contractor license with one API call
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  "https://www.tradesapi.com/verify?state=VA&license=SAMPLE-12345&trade=general"

The official Virginia board portal is at https://dporweb.dpor.virginia.gov/LicenseLookup/ — free to search general contractor licenses by hand. TradesAPI wraps it (and every other state) in one API so you don't maintain 51 different scrapers.

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Frequently asked questions

How do I verify a General Contractor license in Virginia?: Call TradesAPI's GET /verify with state=VA, the license number, and trade=general to get a normalized result — valid/invalid, status, expiration, and any disciplinary actions — in one request. You can also search the official Virginia board portal by hand.
What comes back for a Virginia general contractor license?: The normalized /verify result: whether the license is valid, its current status and expiration date, and any disciplinary actions the Virginia board publishes — the same schema as every other state and trade.
Is Virginia general contractor license data free to check?: The Virginia board's public portal is free to search manually. TradesAPI adds a single normalized API across all 50 states plus DC — every new API key includes 50 free verifications.